See also:

• BASSET, or BASSETTE

BASSET, or BASSETTE  , a See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French See also:

• GAME

game of See also:

• CARDS, PLAYING

cards played by five persons with a See also:

• PACK (apparently from the root pak-, paq-, seen in Lat. pangere, to fasten; cf. " compact ")
• PACK, OTTO VON (c. 1480-1537)

pack of fifty-two cards . Once very popular, it is now practically obsolete . It is said to be of Venetian origin and to have been introduced into See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France by Justiniani, the See also:

• AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

ambassador of See also:

• VENICE
• VENICE (continued)
• VENICE (Venezia)

Venice in the second See also:

• HALF

half of the 17th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . It resembles See also:

• LANSQUENET

lansquenet (q.v.) in a See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general way, in that it is played between a banker and several punters, the players winning or losing according as cards turned up match those already exposed or not .